Category Archive: Seasonal Activities

All of our apples have been picked off the trees and been made into apple juices. The last varieties we have made are the Gala , Jonagold, Bramley’s Seedling, Braeburn, and Cox’s Orange Pippin. The different apples varieties have produced us with full flavour tasting apple juices. Each apple variety has it’s own unique flavour, …

The season is going well with the making of apple juice. The late varieties are being hand picked off the trees which are Bramley’s Seedling, Jonagold, Braeburn etc.The apples will be pressed to get the juice and then bottled and pasteurised so you can enjoy the full flavour of the apple variety as a juice …

Here are Jus, we have been busy hand picking and juicing the early varieties of apples as they ripen. The varieties we have processed so far is the Discovery, Katy, Worcester Pearmain and Tom Putt. In the next couple of weeks we will be making the Greensleeves and Lord Lambourne apple juices. The apples are …

We are having summer weather, hot, sunny and very dry. The apples are growing on the trees, with the roots deeper in the ground, are taking up the moisture that is still there at the moment. The ground in is very dry on top and the grass is very slowly growing, less mowing to do. …

The days are drawing out now and with this warmer weather, the apple trees are starting to wake up from the winter. The pruning of the trees has now finished. The buds on the trees are starting to grow to produce the blossom and the leaves. The blossom is the flowers and these will hopefully …

The winter season is really here with a mixture of snow, rain, frost and a bit of sunshine. The apple trees look beautiful when they are covered in white snow. At this time of year we go around each tree and prune the trees by cutting out old branches to encourage new growth, also to …

Here at Jus, we have been busy making the different varieties into delicious apple juice, as the apples ripen on the trees. We make the apple juice when the apples are ripe and of full of their natural flavour so we can drink and taste that apple variety all year round. It have been an …

The apples have all been harvested in and been made into the delicious different varieties of apple juice. The juicing season went really well with lovely mild and on the whole dry weather. The apples were ready for juicing later this season as we had a late spring, the apples still produced their great individual …

I’am writing this today which they are forecasting the hottest day so far which could be 26 + degrees centigrade. Summer has arrived, how long will it last !!! The early part of summer has been a mixed bag with very heavy thunder downpours that put down a lot of rain in a short time …

Spring has arrived, with the cowslips, bluebells and Tulips are all flowering now. We have had some wet weather with a mixture of dry weather. Our ground is quite wet in places as the ground hasn’t had time to dry before the next lot of rain comes. We are having some slight frosts at nights. …